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Death to the Herald [Der Tod zum Herold]

Maker

(artist)
1799-1850

After
(artist)
died 1775

(lithographer)

(publisher)

Title

Death to the Herald [Der Tod zum Herold]

Date of Production

1840

Medium

Hand-coloured lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7096.28

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper right, printed: No. 28.; upper centre, printed: Der Tod zum Herold. / Herold, in deiner rothen Kappen! / Jetztmals muß ich dich auch ertappen: / Bey Fürsten warst du lieb und werth, / Dein Stab wirf von dir auf die Erd.; lower centre, printed: Antwort des Herolds. / Dem Kayser war ich lieb und werth, / Von ihm hatt' ich Geschenk und Pferdt: / Mein Reden hat manchen erschreckt; / Nun hat der Tod mein Schwätzen g'legt. / Hasler & Cie., éditeurs lithogs. à Basle.; lower left, printed: HHess pinxt; lower right, printed: Danzer lithog. Verso: stamped in blue: M

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